The Port of Aveiro Authority has signed a €972,748 contract to build photovoltaic panels for self-consumption, expected to generate about 656,553 kWh a year and cover more than 80% of the port's own electricity, part of its Energy Transition Strategy.
Wells, Sonae's health-and-beauty chain, plans to grow from 310 to 350 stores by 2030, adding ten shops and refitting twenty a year on €10 million of annual investment. Its health-and-beauty arm booked €469 million in the first half of 2026, up 13.1%.
On 12 August, totality will be visible in Portugal only from a sliver of the Montesinho Natural Park near Bragança, for about 26 seconds — the country's first total solar eclipse since 1912. Hotels across the district have already sold out as astro-tourists descend.
From 2026/27, students on the top tier of the family allowance get a new €1,075 incentive grant, paid automatically on enrolment. But the full redesign of higher-education social support — and its €2,660 average scholarship — has been pushed back to 2027/28.
Portugal has signed over the management of the São João da Madeira hospital to the local Santa Casa da Misericórdia for at least ten years from 1 November — the first public hospital returned to the social sector under this government, with Vila do Conde, Pombal and Seia next in line.
The buses that thread through Greater Lisbon are increasingly driven by people who were not born in Portugal. Figures from the operators that run Carris Metropolitana (the Greater Lisbon regional bus network) show foreign nationals now make up...
Portugal's high-speed rail ambition has moved from track-laying to train-buying. CP (Comboios de Portugal — Portugal's state railway operator) has opened a tender worth up to €584 million for the fleet that will eventually run on the...
